POLITICS

Blanche’s nomination was confirmed in a 50–49 vote on Aug. 8, with Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voting in opposition.

The ruling leaves the state’s claim to $2.9 billion in federal funding intact.

Democratic socialist Francesca Hong enters the primary favored to win despite criticism of her past social media posts online.

The released text messages were among more than 34,000 messages obtained from Fauci’s government cellphone.

The 90-day extension will ease transport of energy and agricultural goods, a response to supply disruptions during the Iran war.

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer in a pre-dawn vote Saturday.

The state remade its congressional districts following a landmark Supreme Court decision earlier this year.

The House China panel chairman says the Commerce Department clouded safeguards adopted after advanced TSMC-made chips reached Huawei.

The state says it’s looking out for the value of its pension fund’s 160,000 shares of NY Times stock. The newspaper sees the demand as an intimidation tactic.

Joint Base Charleston was renamed Joint Base Lindsey Graham in a formal ceremony on Aug. 10, weeks after his sudden death.

The order recommended administering the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in three separate shots.

The money would be ‘for all of the people’ that Iran has ‘killed and gravely wounded’ with its ‘roadside bombs and many conflicts,’ he said.

The sting, titled ‘Operation Safe Community—Atlanta,’ focused primarily on foreign nationals with criminal records, the agency said.

The New York Democrat said in an Aug. 9 interview that she remained in the group’s New York City chapter but did not back policies in its national program.

The White House economic adviser said Trump could remove Cook if due process ultimately establishes cause for her firing.

The department said the reasons for the visa revocations include crimes, fraud, sexual abuse, calling for violence against Americans, and more.

A proposed rule seeks to close a decades-old information gap through a mandatory notification program.